SOWEDO/Showcases/My-Habitz

Market research where the consumer is not the product.

My-Habitz measures what people really do: which shops they visit, which places they pass. Participants decide themselves what they share, and are paid for it. We built the app, the processing on Azure and the reporting behind it.

What the system does
  • Registers passes along thousands of locations
  • Reads the GPS sensors of the device
  • Sends out questionnaires and push messages
  • Delivers reporting in Power BI
The brief

From habits to usable data.

Market research involves large budgets, and the consumer is usually the product: their data is collected without anything coming back to them. My-Habitz, an initiative of MSI-ACI and SOWEDO, turns that around. The participant decides what to share, and is paid for it.

To make those measurements accurate we built an app for iOS and Android that reads the GPS sensors of the device and registers which of the listed locations someone walks or drives past. Around it came a back office to run the whole thing, and a reporting environment.

One app for iOS and Android, on Ionic and Capacitor
Processing and storage of every measurement on Azure
Back office for locations, hotspots and participants
Questionnaires in the app, with a push right after
Power BI reporting on behaviour and campaigns
A monthly lottery, paid out through PayPal
In brief

One chain, from GPS signal to report.

The app records the passes, Azure turns them into measurements and Power BI reports on campaign effectiveness and consumer behaviour. We built and run the whole thing.

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On screen

This is what it looks like.

The app in short: sign up, share your habits and get something back for it.
Map of Amsterdam with geofences over the measured positions
The grey clouds are raw positions. The red circles are the geofences they are matched against.
Two screens from the My-Habitz app: the data vault and the questionnaires
On the left the participant sees what has been recorded. On the right every questionnaire earns tickets.
What it delivers

Where the gain sits.

Not in separate parts, but in one chain that runs from phone to report.

5,000Geofences every position is matched against.
20,000+Location matches in a single day.
60,000+Measurements recorded by participants.
iOS + AndroidOne app, built with Ionic and Capacitor.
You see this pattern more often.

An app is rarely the whole story. There has to be a back office behind it, processing that scales, and reporting someone can actually use. We built that entire chain here.

My-Habitz is an initiative of MSI-ACI and SOWEDO. All participant data is anonymised and never traceable to a person.

How it works

From a position to a measurement.

The geofence

Around every shop or place of interest lies a circle. A participant entering it counts as a pass. Thousands of those circles are ready and waiting.

The match

The device only sends raw positions. An Event Hub catches them, a function lays them next to the locations and turns them into a measurement.

The reward

A completed questionnaire is followed straight away by a push message. Every month there is a lottery, paid out through PayPal.

“The participant is not the product here. They are the owner.”
Team My-Habitz

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